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So we get an illustration on what Crota actually looked like before he got fragmented and ghostly.

Also, Crota seems to be shorter than Oryx, so his giant form is presumably his Throne World form.
Just like the Mindbender and Oryx, the user of a Throne World seems to grow in size accordingly to their strength in the Sword Logic.

Wonder what users of different Sword Logics (Nokris with his logic of gaining knowledge, Mara Sov with her Bomb Logic, Savathun if she ends up switching to IMBARU, etc) would look like when fought inside their Thrones.

This book is shaping up to be pretty great. Hopefully we get illustrations showing Xivu Arath, Savathun, Taox, and the different species the Hive genocided.

The Hive are several millennia old (if not older), and were completely transmogrified by their pact with the Worm Gods, so its doubtful the Hive broodmother is anything close to what the ancient Krill looked like.

Bomb Logic is what Mara Sov came up with when planning to fight Oryx before Taken King.

A bomb is made up of components. When disassembled, they are hard to identify and arent dangerous on their own.
When assembled, they explode and cause great damage.

Bomb Logic is based on creating many small plans and keeping them isolated from one another, so that once the bomb is "assembled", it explodes and wins over the Sword Logic.

Mara's plan was to first build a Throne World by using this Bomb Logic (one needs some type of Sword Logic to use as the building blocks of a Throne World), and speed up the process with Riven's and the Techeun's help.

Second, she called Eris Morn to guide the Guardians into defeating Oryx when the time was right.

And third, she planned on using Oryx as the "trigger" to the bomb.

Only Eris knew the full extent of the plan, so that way Mara kept it secret from almost everyone.

When Oryx arrived to the Solar System, Mara attacked him with her fleets.
The intention was to provoke Oryx into using his Oversoul.
He did, and this is when Oryx "triggered" the "bomb" Mara had planted.

Mara entered Oryx's Throne World by being killed by the Oversoul. But she wasnt Taken like the Techeuns, because the Harbingers were also inside and rescued her soul.
Remember in the cutscene when the Harbingers attack the Dreadnought and seemingly nothing happens? This is why they did it.

So Mara's soul was rescued by the Harbingers, and she managed to survive inside Oryx's Throne World until Eris led the Guardians into Kings Fall and Oryx was killed.

Now the final stage of Mara's plan was set into motion, and she headed back to her own Throne World in order to rebuild her body.
Her final objective was then to claim Oryx's Throne World as her own, but something prevented her from doing it.

Since Savathun hasnt claimed Oryx's Throne either and is using a work around to control the Taken, there must be some sort of obstacle preventing Oryx's Throne from being claimed.
Maybe we will tackle this problem on the final Dreadnought dlc.

As for IMBARU, Savathun wants to reshape her existence and rid herself of the need to constantly kill to feed her worm.
She wants to instead embrace a Sword Logic where she gains power from merely being misunderstood or misinterpreted.

And since Savathun is extremely good as misinformation, and plans on empowering herself enormously via the Distributary, she could basically become a god that reshapes reality itself so that it will be simply impossible to comprehend her entirety.

Like a lovecraftian god that becomes even more powerful when one looks at it and goes "what the fuck is this?"

I've always thought that most bosses were made larger to simplify portrayal in the video game space. And that with exception of the actual huge bosses like riven and throne world oryx the boss size is just an exaggeration.

Except for fallen which bungie tried to make a lore defined reason for size differences. Shrug. I'm just rambling

Then [Oryx and his sisters] they made war on the Ecumene for a thousand years, and exterminated them so wholly that nowhere except in this book are they remembered. This book and the mind of Taox, who was not found

As noted by /u/disasta121 this was 24,000 years after the Hive made their pact with the worms.

Things like not protecting the Traveler doing the Red Legion's Raid on the Last City, trying to close any possible relationship with Rasputin, not going after Uldren at all (that alone would open us up for other attacks, as every single one of our enemies would see what they could get away with if they were powerful enough), etc.

My bad, I faintly remember that someone pointed out that there is a page count difference between the versions labeled "leather" and "imitation leather". Nowhere does it say real leather, so that is a point I must concede.

Is the "Eater of Hope" title new? Why does this not sound familiar at all? I've listened to so many lore videos on the Hive, about Crota & Oryx but I do not remember ever hearing Crota referred to as "Eater of Hope"...

Pretty much, seems like they will chain together lore from both games by each theme of the lore. This case being Hive. Can't wait to buy, but am going to do so on Amazon and save on Bungie's ridic shipping fee.

Some is putting it mildly. Anthology is used to describe this for a reason because the Book of Sorrow alone is enough to be a dedicated book alone. It is all the existing lore in one source which is amazing.